Sunday, September 29th
Our first stop was heading out to Torrance to go to our old church and say hi to those that were a big part of our newly married life. It was great fun to see everyone!! From there we headed to our favorite lunch place, El Burrito Jr. and then trekked down to Long Beach to go to the Aquarium of the Pacific. It had been a while since we had been there so it was fun to go back and discover all of the new things. It was super crowded there because they had a festival going on, but we still had fun wandering around and seeing all the sea-life.
After the aquarium we had been promising Makenna for a LONG time that when we went to the beach next that we would take kites and fly them. Unfortunately our area doesn't have much of a breeze to fly kites proficiently. So we walked to the park that is right next to the aquarium and brought our little butterfly kite and huge dragon kite in order to fly them. Well, I guess the weather had other ideas because unfortunately there was not enough wind to get even Makenna's little tiny kite to fly, so we didn't even bother taking out the huge dragon kite. Makenna was pretty disappointed, but they did give it a good effort.
So instead of flying kites they just played on the grass...
climbed in the trees...
and got nice and tired for napping on the long ride home.
Tuesday, October 1st
After a day of resting on Monday, our next adventure was a trip to Disneyland. This was Kyler's first time at Disneyland. We were a little concerned about how Kyler would do while waiting in the lines but we found that as long as we had snacks to munch on the entire time in line that he was quite content being held and eating. And Makenna of course was so excited to go back again. She insisted that the first ride that we went on was Peter Pan. She is very into Jake and the Neverland Pirates television show, but has never seen Peter Pan, so it was kind of funny that she picked that ride as the one that she had to go on first. Here are a few photos of our time at Disneyland... |
| Mr. Toad's Wild Ride |
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| Dumbo |
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| It's A Small World |
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| Rocket Ships |
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| Alice In Wonderland |
It was so much fun and not crowded at all. At the end of the day Kyler's favorite ride was the Carousel (he LOVES horses) and Makenna's were the Teacups and It's A Small World.
Wednesday, October 2nd
Since we had such a long day yesterday we decided to stick closer to home and went out to Jumping Jacks in the afternoon. It is a big warehouse building that has inflatable bounce houses set up. Makenna and Toby had such a great time jumping around, going through the obstacles courses, sliding down slides, and dueling each other.
And Kyler really didn't like the feeling of how the bounce houses made it difficult to walk. So we got him to go down one slide with me but other than that he mostly just played in the little toy area and had fun running around on the solid ground.
Thursday, October 3rd
On Thursday we headed out to the Huntington Library and Gardens. As you know they are our favorite and it was a free day that I was lucky to get tickets for. So off we went to enjoy the day in the beautiful gardens. Our first stop of course was to the Children's Garden.We visited the "houses"...
the water fountains...
we went through some of the other garden areas, ate lunch, and then we ran around and played hide-and-seek before leaving to drive home.
Oh, how we love those gardens.
Friday, October 4th
Friday we joined up with some of our friends and went out to play at the Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert in Palm Desert.
Saturday, October 5th
Then for our last official day of vacation we went locally up to Oak Glen for an morning of apple picking.
We had such a terrific time on our vacation. It is always so fun to get to spend a whole week of time doing fun things with the people we love so much.
